Word: hassett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry Truman requested); Presidential Aides Clark Clifford and John Steelman got raises to $20,000; White House Secretaries Charles G. Ross, William D. Hassett and Matt Connelly to $18,000. The under secretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau heads and commissioners who run Washington's alphabetical beehive were raised to $15,000 -approximately the amount Congressmen and Senators voted themselves...
...yard freestyle: Won by Girdes (Yale); second, DeForrest (Penn); third, Parker (Yale); fourth, Moore (Yale); fifth, Baldwin (Williams); sixth, Hassett (Yale). Winning time...
...presidential household also includes such diverse personalities as weather-beaten, 72-year-old Admiral Leahy, still technically the President's chief of staff, who gives Mr. Truman a daily 15-minute briefing on strategic problems; kindly, dignified William D. Hassett, a Roosevelt pensioner who handles general correspondence; and shrewd, soft-voiced David K. Niles, who advises on problems of minority groups, particularly Palestine...
...mind me," Hassett remarked. "I'm waiting for my laundry...
...Hassett left, leaving a stack of state papers within easy reach of the President's chair. The artist sketched while Miss Suckley crocheted. The President unconcernedly shuffled his papers...